Jyotirmayee Pradhan: Assistant Professor in Zoology (OES-Group A) earned M.Sc. degree in Zoology from SCS College, Puri (Utkal University) in 1999. Immediately after M.Sc. she joined as SRF in ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar and continued her research work on fish pathology for which Utkal University conferred the Ph.D. degree in 2012. Subsequently in 2008, she availed DST-Women's Scientist (WOS-A) Scheme from Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. She has worked on development of DNA vaccine to combat Edwardsiella tarda infection in commercially important food fishes, a DBT funded project at CIFAICAR, and in 2013 she joined as Research Associate in DST- PURSE programme at PG Department Zoology, Utkal University. She has been received Congress of Zoology Medal for outstanding Research and Academic Contribution in the Field of Biochemistry, from Zoological Society of India in 29th All India Congress of Zoology, 2017. So far she has published numbers of international reputed journals. Research fields of her principal interest include microbial diseases in fishes, development of alternative antimicrobial drugs for the treatment of infectious diseases from natural resources. Her topics also include the extraction methods and purification of active metabolites from algae and knowing the in vivo specific and non specific immune system, oxidative stress and antioxidant defense mechanisms. She is an active member of several learned scientific societies. She is the life member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) Calcutta, Association of Aquaculturists, Odisha Bigyan Academy (OBA), Odisha and Zoological Society of India (ZSI), Kolkata.